Zen and Now

the journey forward

Looking Back: Time seems to be the most precious commodity while we live our life and weave our way along our path. Life is good though and the sense of knowing when one is on the right path is very rewarding. Building a foundation of supportive friends and professional peers takes time, faith, patience, temperance and perseverance, but its all worth it and we're having fun.

Personal progress: Aside from past academics in Professional Cooking, Food Service Management, Nutritional Healing and Holistic Medicine (Naturopathy), a new wave of human care studies was completed in 2011. This included 2 years of pre-med courses and I now look back on an accumulated nine years of adult academics. Naturally the educational systems I have studied in are varied in their structures, but all have been necessary for me to do the type of work I understand and believe in. My professional intention is to gain a deeper level of understanding regarding the diversity of your individual needs.

Looking Forward: I am really optimistic about being involved with research and missionary teams whenever time allows. Providing spiritual support during crisis, studying the functionality and eventual demise of prior civilizations, or restoring hope to and the wellbeing of individuals and communities is really appealing to me. I've acquired unending support and have gained a variety of beneficial skills to contribute to these ventures, so I'm moving forward with optimism.

Our Ever Changing World: In my own work I have interacted with a broad spectrum of people from many cultural, religious and philosophical belief systems. So to me the concept of creating a "one world" structure doesn't seem realistic, no matter how much of a trend there is to make it happen.

In order to accomplish this the people of the world will have to agree to come together to form one religion, one philosophy, one type of currency, one type of everything and that should never be. The end result would make us similar to a world population of amoeba, simply coexisting and functioning without a sense of self or diversity, which doesn't sound appealing at all.

The same is true for medicine and healing. I see people as uniquely different, each with an individual biochemistry. Therefore there is no one way, one therapy, or one medicine to treat all people with the same condition. This possibility is nonexistent. The need for diversity in counseling, health care and spiritual care is important. Care providers need to be open minded to people's sensitivities, to their individual beliefs and rights to choose the type of care they need, with only a few exceptions. This is where the focus should be, on individualized care of the people of the world, not forcing them to accept the re-creation of it.

~Teresa